HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS

UNIX

 

PLATFORM

OS VERSION

GRAPHICS CARD

DISK SPACE

(MB)

HP

HP-UX 11+

Minimum CRX 8 Plane

500

IBM

AIX 4.2+

Minimum 24 Plane Graphics

500

SGI

IRIX 6.5+

All Graphics Boards Supported

500

SUN

SunOS 5.8+

Minimum Creator 3D

500

 

LINUX

 

The RedHat operating system version 7.3 and above is supported.  eta/DYNAFORM must run under KDE environment. The NVIDIA graphic cards are recommended.

 

PC/WINDOWS

 

eta/DYNAFORM in PC platform is compatible with PC-LS-DYNA 971. It will run in Windows 98, 2000, XP and Vista environments.  It is not recommended for usage with earlier versions of Windows. 

 

Minimum Graphics Requirement: XGA (1024 x 768) or WXGA (1280 x 800), SXGA+ (1400 x 1050) or WSXGA+ (1680 x 1050) recommended

 

Graphics Card: OpenGL based (NVIDIA or ATI graphic card with 256MB RAM recommended)

 

Minimum Memory Requirement:

         Small models (20,000 - 50,000 elements):            1 GB RAM

    Medium models (50,000 - 100,000 elements):         1.5 GB RAM

    Large models (100,000 - 500,000 elements):          2 GB RAM

        

Minimum Load space requirement:  512MB  (1GB for Vista)

Recommended processor:  Core 2 Dual or better